Edward Jarecki

... Susan Lacy's “Jane Fonda In Five Acts,” Rory Kennedy's “Above And Beyond: NASA's Journey To Tomorrow,” Barbara Kopple's “A Murder In Mansfield,” Eugene Jarecki's “The King” and Dana Adam Shapiro's “Daughters Of The Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story Of The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

In the summer, movie theaters are often devoted to the fictional and fantastical — but those who are looking to sink their teeth into great nonfiction filmmaking will find plenty to love this summer. Ranging far beyond the customary “issue” documentaries, this summer's documentary offerings include ...

It's a sobering, maddening, and sadly still timely tale. It's also one with many similarities to the upheaval Rochester experienced during the summer of 1964. A conversation with Kaufman will follow the screening. (Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m.). Eugene Jarecki's sprawling "The King" starts off as an entertaining ...

THE KING (Tennessee Premiere) - Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes a musical road trip across the U.S. in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce during the 2016 presidential election, comparing Elvis's transition from country boy to "The King" to America's transformation into an empire. Cast: Alec Baldwin, Tony ...

Folk Alley presents two screenings of the documentary THE KING at the 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival. Director Eugene Jarecki travels America in Elvis' 1963 Rolls Royce talking to people along the way about the parallels between Elvis' rise and fall and the post-war American experience.

Eugene Jarecki's latest, The King, parallels Elvis Presley's selling out with America's. The underground Graveyard Shift lineup includes Sestero's Best F(r)iends co-starring Wiseau as a mortician drumming up business with a drifter played by the director. Other titles include Let the Corpses Tan from Belgium ...

EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Jarecki, who debuted his new film The King at the Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Anonymous Content and Sterling Lord Literistic, the latter of whom will team with the filmmaker on a book based on his Elvis Presley road-trip documentary. David Kanter and Howie Sanders of ...

The King (Special Events) – Eugene Jarecki's new documentary following a musical road trip in tribute to Elvis will be put in cinemas by Oscilloscope. Kusama: Infinity (US Documentary Competition) – Magnolia has acquired the US rights to this documentary about legendary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.

'The King' Helmer Eugene Jarecki On How The Story Of Elvis Is The Story Of America – Sundance Studio ... majesty when he landed on the world stage just as America had her majesty,” said director Eugene Jarecki during his turn at Deadline's Sundance Studio to speak on his documentary film, The King.

EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of Sundance, Oscilloscope has acquired North American rights to The King, the Eugene Jarecki-directed documentary in which the filmmaker takes Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce on a musical road trip along the singer's geographical touchstones. The film traces where Presley lost ...

That's what happened to Sundance Film Festival award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, who while touring America with his criminal justice doc, The House I Live In, was moved by those he spoke with about “how the American Dream lost its luster.” Jarecki drove on, and it just so happened the path he ...

A documentary as sprawling and brilliant and flawed as the country it traverses, Eugene Jarecki's “The Promised Land” is a fascinatingly overstuffed portrait of America in decline. In the process, it's also: a biography of the 20th century's most famous musician,; a story about how a man became king of a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Jarecki, helmer of the 2005 Peabody- and Sundance-winning documentary Why We Fight, hits the road all the way to the Cannes Film Festival for his next film. In Promised Land, which will have its world premiere in Cannes' Special Screening section May 20, Jarecki takes Elvis ...

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki has signed with UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. He previously was with CAA. Both of his documentaries — Why We Fight, about the rise of the military-industrial complex, and The House I Live In, about the war on drugs — won Sundance Grand Jury Prizes ...

Moviemaker Eugene Jarecki is considering a tour of Asia in Elvis Presley's Rolls Royce after filming The King from the driver's seat of the motor. In the film, which opens this summer (18), Jarecki tours across America chatting to backseat guests like Alec Baldwin and Ethan Hawke about Elvis' impact on culture, and he had ...